Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Wade Riddick <wriddick AT usa.net>]

> Hey, Wade, can you elaborate on that?  I don't remember Henry the IV at all.  I did have a sudden recall of the Prince Valiant reference in MG, but that's a bit non sequitar. 


Hamlet, Act 3 Sc 4

I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,
To punish me with this and this with me,
That I must be their scourge and minister.
I will bestow him, and will answer well
The death I gave him. So, again, good night.
I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.


It's a call to divine retribution with kamikaze overtones.